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and also playing governor romney we have u.s. congressman jason from utah. let's go to the first question to you, i'm talking to president obama now, if your face. >> yes, you are. >> i've been unemployed for three years. you say you created 5 million jobs. what do you say to me? >> i say we have more to do. i created 5.2 million jobs over the last four years of my -- in my term in office. we've created 500,000 manufacturing jobs in this country in the last two years alone. there's more work to be done and help is on the way. re-elect me and i'll make sure every job that wants a job gets a job. >> okay. let me ask governor romney a question. you say you want to go after iran even if they have the capability, that's the phrase, capability of producing a nuclear weapon. how do youtify preemptive war? >> hey, look, one of our greatestallies is israel. we have to make sure we're standing with them in this fight because they have said that they will use nuclear weapons to destroy the united states of america, to destroy israel. we're going to stand together witht
and also playing governor romney we have u.s. congressman jason from utah. let's go to the first question to you, i'm talking to president obama now, if your face. >> yes, you are. >> i've been unemployed for three years. you say you created 5 million jobs. what do you say to me? >> i say we have more to do. i created 5.2 million jobs over the last four years of my -- in my term in office. we've created 500,000 manufacturing jobs in this country in the last two years alone....
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susan is a contributing editor to u.s. news and world ror and michael steele is the former chairman of the republican national committee, also an msnbc political analyst. i'm going to try to look at this down the middle. i saw the whole debate today. i think david gregory did a hell of a job. like a referee in a boxing match. each candidate had a tough moment or two. here is warren tripped up, i think, when asked to name a republican she could work with. just name a senator or any bunch of them. here is what she said. let's watch. >> can you name some republicans in the senate today that you are able to work with on big issues, substantive issues, that the countryaces. >> i think probably ruched lugar would be one -- >> he's not going to be there. >> he's not going to be there. >> who else could you name, senator? >> that is a problem. let me do this one -- let me -- >> just let me ask the question. are there any republicans that are going to be in the senate that you feel you could work with substantively and compromise w
susan is a contributing editor to u.s. news and world ror and michael steele is the former chairman of the republican national committee, also an msnbc political analyst. i'm going to try to look at this down the middle. i saw the whole debate today. i think david gregory did a hell of a job. like a referee in a boxing match. each candidate had a tough moment or two. here is warren tripped up, i think, when asked to name a republican she could work with. just name a senator or any bunch of...
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and in an e-mail to employees with the subject line, will the u.s. presidential election directly impact your future jobs at asg? ceo arthur allen wrote, quote f we fail as a nation to make the right choice on november 6th and we lose our independence as a company, i don't want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will cost -- will most likely come. is this fear mongering cross the line? john nichols and chrystia freelander and author of a great new book "the plutocrats." let me start with you. this kind of old -- it reminds me of brassed off, a british labor and tory party fight where the men on the hill, four or five of them, live in the big houses, look down on the people and tell the coal diggers, you better vote republican, or in that case tory. this doesn't smack 6 the 21st century. >> or maybe the new 21st century. the income inequality -- the gap for the bosses on the hill than anybody else is greater than any other time in history. we like to think we live in this internet democracy, we're all the same, we all wear khaki, but th
and in an e-mail to employees with the subject line, will the u.s. presidential election directly impact your future jobs at asg? ceo arthur allen wrote, quote f we fail as a nation to make the right choice on november 6th and we lose our independence as a company, i don't want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will cost -- will most likely come. is this fear mongering cross the line? john nichols and chrystia freelander and author of a great new book "the plutocrats."...
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a 21-year-old bangladesh national who came to the u.s. in january is under arrest following a sting operation. he's accused of trying to use a van carrying what he thought was a bomb to attack the new york federal reserve. 19 people are now dead in the meningitis outbreak. 247 others are sick. it's the second worst year on record for the west nile virus. more than 4500 cases have been reported so far, including nearly 300 just last week. now let's take you back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." here's a scary trend. a growing list of pro-romney ceos trying to scare their employees by essentially saying if obama wins the election, you should fear for your jobs. let's take a look at some of them. david siegel, the ceo of a florida real estate firm and infamous owner of the largest home in the country. he told employees, quote, if any new taxes are levied on me or my company, as our current president plans, i will have no choice but to reduce the size of the company. and in an e-mail to employees with the subject line, will the
a 21-year-old bangladesh national who came to the u.s. in january is under arrest following a sting operation. he's accused of trying to use a van carrying what he thought was a bomb to attack the new york federal reserve. 19 people are now dead in the meningitis outbreak. 247 others are sick. it's the second worst year on record for the west nile virus. more than 4500 cases have been reported so far, including nearly 300 just last week. now let's take you back to "hardball."...
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the u.s. auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy. you said that they could get it in the private marketplace. that wasn't true. they would -- >> you're wrong, mr. president. >> no, i am not wrong. >> you're wrong. >> i am not wrong. >> look it up. >> romney's "new york times" op-ed headline, let detroit go bankrupt, is often evidence he would let the auto industry fail. in fairness, he didn't select the headline. he would have withheld federal money from the auto industry. he wrote, a managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental reconstruction the industry needs. it would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension, and real estate cost. the federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing. steve rattner, you're the expert. it seems if i want to borrow money as a company to stay alive, i would remember who turned me down. he thinks he got away with it last night, romney. >> i think the president said it exactly right. the fact is that
the u.s. auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy. you said that they could get it in the private marketplace. that wasn't true. they would -- >> you're wrong, mr. president. >> no, i am not wrong. >> you're wrong. >> i am not wrong. >> look it up. >> romney's "new york times" op-ed headline, let detroit go bankrupt, is often evidence he would let the auto industry fail. in fairness, he didn't select the headline. he would have withheld...
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the september jobs report showed the u.s. added 114,000 jobs with the unemployment rate dropping to 7.8%. the better news was the bureau of labor statistics was revising job reports for the last two months finding the economy actually added 181,000 jobs up from 141,000 in august. and in august the economy added 142,000 jobs up from the initially lack luster 96,000 initially reported. so there were in total 200,000 new jobs on this jobs report. president obama tried to put today's good news jobs report in context, campaigning in virginia. >> after losing about 800,000 jobs a month when i took office, our businesses have now added 5.2 million new jobs over the past 2 1/2 years. this morning we found out that the unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since i took office. more americans entered the work force, more people are getting jobs. it's a reminder that this country has come too far to turn back now. >> mitt romney also campaigning in virginia. not as impressed. >> we don't have to stay in the path we've been on
the september jobs report showed the u.s. added 114,000 jobs with the unemployment rate dropping to 7.8%. the better news was the bureau of labor statistics was revising job reports for the last two months finding the economy actually added 181,000 jobs up from 141,000 in august. and in august the economy added 142,000 jobs up from the initially lack luster 96,000 initially reported. so there were in total 200,000 new jobs on this jobs report. president obama tried to put today's good news jobs...
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. >> i was a u.s. army special forces medic and weapons specialist on an a team, and i served in combat carrying out special operations on behalf of our country. >> so you were in it. >> yes, yes, i was and with a lot of my friends and, you know, it's one of the reasons i'm so passionate about our veterans and making sure that they get the education and training they deserve, that their va benefits are preserved, and that we should be awarding them combat bonuses. congressman flake, of course, has voted down all those things. be there's no higher calling than honoring these young men and women who so bravely serve us. right now i'm real disappointed in how congressman flake has done that. i won't do that. i will support or veterans and seniors as well as some of the areas congressman flake has moved away from because it's politically convenient for him. >> you know that movie "born of the fourth of july" where everybody cheers him when he goes off to fight but when he comes back dismembered, there's no
. >> i was a u.s. army special forces medic and weapons specialist on an a team, and i served in combat carrying out special operations on behalf of our country. >> so you were in it. >> yes, yes, i was and with a lot of my friends and, you know, it's one of the reasons i'm so passionate about our veterans and making sure that they get the education and training they deserve, that their va benefits are preserved, and that we should be awarding them combat bonuses. congressman...
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here was romney today sounding reasonable, in fact, consistent with u.s. policy. let's take a look. >> i'll recommit america to the goal of a democratic, prosperous palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the jewish state of israel. on this vital issue, the president has failed and what should be a negotiation process has devolved into a series of heated disputes at the u.n. in this old conflict, as in every challenge we face in the middle east, only a new president will bring the chance to begin anew. >> well, here he was in may at that fund-raiser in boca raton with a lot of wealthy people arguing the best thing to do was accept that it remained an unresolved problem. let's watch his very different approach to people he viewed, i think, as more hawkish even than him. here is mitt romney behind closed doors. >> i don't think the palestinians want to see peace anyway for political purposes, committed to the destruction of israel and these thorny issues and i say there's just no way. what you do is you move things along the best way you can
here was romney today sounding reasonable, in fact, consistent with u.s. policy. let's take a look. >> i'll recommit america to the goal of a democratic, prosperous palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the jewish state of israel. on this vital issue, the president has failed and what should be a negotiation process has devolved into a series of heated disputes at the u.n. in this old conflict, as in every challenge we face in the middle east, only a new...
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big bird played no small role in what turned out to be the most tweeted about political vent in u.s. history. that was last night. just his name was generating over 13 -- 17,000 tweets per minute at one point. from one of the many big bird related accounts here it comes, if romney wins this, could be me. there's a sorry sight there. an extremely downtrodden big bird. but then he put it in per speck tich with, quote, geez, at least its mitt. newt would have september me to a moon colony. what happened when sesame street's other residents caught wind of romney's remark? this mitt romney wants to cut pb s funding, well, blank, just got real. the pbs president called the post debate focus on big bird, quote, unbelievable and stunning. >>> here is a question, what is learning to make a souffle have to do with a debate? well, a whole lot if you ask comedian louis black. >> two minutes they have to speak, two minutes. do we have really the attention span of a gnat? two minutes to tell us about the economy, about the medical thing, about social security. two minutes? it's ludicrous. we shoul
big bird played no small role in what turned out to be the most tweeted about political vent in u.s. history. that was last night. just his name was generating over 13 -- 17,000 tweets per minute at one point. from one of the many big bird related accounts here it comes, if romney wins this, could be me. there's a sorry sight there. an extremely downtrodden big bird. but then he put it in per speck tich with, quote, geez, at least its mitt. newt would have september me to a moon colony. what...
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u.s. stock market, the death rattle of the auto industry. he, barack obama, then brought a financial and economic collapse back from the brink, changed the course of the economy from job destruction to job creation, doubled the american stock market, saved the auto industry. he did it all with a dramatic change of policy, a stimulus program that buried 180 degrees from the austerity measures have that humbled europe. an intervention into the auto industry that reinvigorated an industry that means pride to americans. obama needs to make this defense, he needs to underline the fact that his opponent and his party fought him every inch of the way. on the stimulus, on the auto industry, on health care, on equal pay for women, and that it disagrees in fundamental ways of the future course of american economic policy. on health care, on medicare, on social security, on equal pay for women. he has got to both defend and hold his opponent accountable for his and his party's obstructionism from the
u.s. stock market, the death rattle of the auto industry. he, barack obama, then brought a financial and economic collapse back from the brink, changed the course of the economy from job destruction to job creation, doubled the american stock market, saved the auto industry. he did it all with a dramatic change of policy, a stimulus program that buried 180 degrees from the austerity measures have that humbled europe. an intervention into the auto industry that reinvigorated an industry that...
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the democrats' hope of keeping the u.s. senate are getting stronger by the day, especially when you zero in on ohio where sherrod brown seems to be successfully fighting back against the dirty, angry money. a new "columbus dispatch" poll has brown up over his opponent, josh mandel, by ten points. that's a big change from their tied race in late august. senator sherrod brown from ohio is with me from cleveland. thank you so much because i love seeing you here on this show because you represent to me the bread and butter, the meat and potatoes democratic party i grew up knowing all about and worked for. regular people who need regular government. it struck me and it must have struck you that this 47% thing that romney said and didn't think anybody was recording, where he said those people don't take care of their own lives. they don't meet their own responsibilities. well, the problem with that is he's attacking people on social security. it seems to me somebody who has been paying payroll tax from the time they were a paper
the democrats' hope of keeping the u.s. senate are getting stronger by the day, especially when you zero in on ohio where sherrod brown seems to be successfully fighting back against the dirty, angry money. a new "columbus dispatch" poll has brown up over his opponent, josh mandel, by ten points. that's a big change from their tied race in late august. senator sherrod brown from ohio is with me from cleveland. thank you so much because i love seeing you here on this show because you...
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joining me right now is u.s. congressman chris van hollen who happens to be my congressman and my wife's, probably more importantly. and gentlemen, i'm going to start with you, sir, because you've been there. you know what we don't know. you know how prepared joe biden is. is he? >> he's ready to go. he's looking forward to tonight and he understands the stakes are high and he's looking forward to talking about the choices in this election. absolutely. >> it's faster, more punches are thrown. does he have a different role than he knows for running for president? >> look, he's got working class roots. >> will he tonight? >> he may. but he has it in his gut and that's the issue for joe biden. he's a fighter for the middle class and this election is about whether you have policies that are going to help middle class or do what ryan and romney want to do, the old trickle down and help the foenlks at the top. we know that was a bust. >> does he know the weak spot of the romney team that he's got to hit? >> look, he kn
joining me right now is u.s. congressman chris van hollen who happens to be my congressman and my wife's, probably more importantly. and gentlemen, i'm going to start with you, sir, because you've been there. you know what we don't know. you know how prepared joe biden is. is he? >> he's ready to go. he's looking forward to tonight and he understands the stakes are high and he's looking forward to talking about the choices in this election. absolutely. >> it's faster, more punches...
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. >>> bob kerry, both a former governor and u.s. senator for nebraska is again running for the u.s. senate seat in his home state. after announcing his candidacy back in march, he soubded optimistic about his chances. >> i think there's a good chance i'll win the election. i love the people of the state. i love the place and i love the values. >> but now the latest polls in nebraska aren't loving him back. they show him trailing his opponent. one reason, fisher has had the benefit of a lot of super pac money. she also has the endorsement of sarah palin, which could be a pro or kon, depending who you ask. so bob kerrey is turning to his own endorsement, steve martin. >> hi, i'm steve martin. you probably know me as the actor and comedian. but did you know i'm also a home crafts expert? today i'm going to show you how to make a wad of paper. a wad of paper can be a lot of fun just to play with around the house or maybe toss expertly into a trash can. but who wants to go down to a fancy office building and root around in their dumpster to find a good one. so i'm going to show you how t
. >>> bob kerry, both a former governor and u.s. senator for nebraska is again running for the u.s. senate seat in his home state. after announcing his candidacy back in march, he soubded optimistic about his chances. >> i think there's a good chance i'll win the election. i love the people of the state. i love the place and i love the values. >> but now the latest polls in nebraska aren't loving him back. they show him trailing his opponent. one reason, fisher has had the...
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. >> is it insane -- what is it on his part, is it tom donahue, the u.s. chamber of commerce, what pressure is he doing not to do what seems to be the reasonable thing to do, equal pay? why would romney, who is not an idiot, why would he take that position? >> well, the united states chamber of commerce probably is pushing for that because they sent in a lawyer to argue against lilly ledbetter the two times i testified in the house and the two times i testified in the senate. so they are not for the ledbetter bill. >> it makes sense he's getting pressure. >> he is. >> that doesn't show good faith with american women. american women vote. most of the voters, yet he'd rather go with the downtown group, with the u.s. chamber of commerce. why? that's got to be psychological. why does he feel more comfortable with a bunch of guys downtown with some money to spend when he has all the money in the world? >> well, because he's their candidate. he represents them. that is what he's going to restore to the white house, but i also think we have to say, he will not co
. >> is it insane -- what is it on his part, is it tom donahue, the u.s. chamber of commerce, what pressure is he doing not to do what seems to be the reasonable thing to do, equal pay? why would romney, who is not an idiot, why would he take that position? >> well, the united states chamber of commerce probably is pushing for that because they sent in a lawyer to argue against lilly ledbetter the two times i testified in the house and the two times i testified in the senate. so...
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one of the witnesses today, u.s. regional security offer eric nordstrom testified extra security wouldn't have prevented the tragic deaths in benghazi. let's listen to him. >> let me say a word about the evening of september 11th. i had not seen an attack of such veracity and intensity previously in libya, nor in my time with the security service. >> you said, quote, having an extra foot -- extra foot of wall or extra half dozen guards or agents would not have enabled to respond to that kind of assault. did you write that? >> i do and still believe that. >> congressman elijah cummings, did you hear evidence that the people at the embassy in tripoli and the consulate in benghazi had asked for more security help and that had been rejected, is that a fact, do we know? >> we heard some testimony today to that effect, but on the other hand one of those witnesses, eric nordstrom, made it clear that he had had good cooperation. as a matter of fact, he complicated the effort of the state department. so, we had -- this was a
one of the witnesses today, u.s. regional security offer eric nordstrom testified extra security wouldn't have prevented the tragic deaths in benghazi. let's listen to him. >> let me say a word about the evening of september 11th. i had not seen an attack of such veracity and intensity previously in libya, nor in my time with the security service. >> you said, quote, having an extra foot -- extra foot of wall or extra half dozen guards or agents would not have enabled to respond to...
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it's a matchup that could determine control of the u.s. senate. with me now is former attorney general heidi heitkamp. i want to show you an ad now that you've been the victim of. let's show this ad that you've put out. >> when i decided to run for the senate, i knew they'd try and hit me with all sort of stuff. i'm heidi heitkamp. the ads are all paid for by a few billionaires and they know if i'm in the senate i won't let them. i'm not willing to trade aware your medicare for more tax breaks for billionaire. i approve this message because i'm just getting warmed up. >> okay, madam attorney general, did you actually hit every one of them or did you edit that picture? i've been in those books. did you hit every one that went by you no matter how it was coming at you? >> let me tell you, it was a rocky start but after i got going, i was hitting them all. >> let me ask you about why there's a different. i know you're a more moderate democrat. let's get down to the basics here. what's the difference between a republican and democrat in north dakota,
it's a matchup that could determine control of the u.s. senate. with me now is former attorney general heidi heitkamp. i want to show you an ad now that you've been the victim of. let's show this ad that you've put out. >> when i decided to run for the senate, i knew they'd try and hit me with all sort of stuff. i'm heidi heitkamp. the ads are all paid for by a few billionaires and they know if i'm in the senate i won't let them. i'm not willing to trade aware your medicare for more tax...